If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Quotations
Music
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
